RE: 2.4 Module List - zenity

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Rodrigo Moya [mailto:rodrigo gnome-db org] 
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:50, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > From: Rodrigo Moya [mailto:rodrigo gnome-db org] 
> > > and simple users also might want to leatn how to do 
> scripts, and use
> > > them for a lot of things (think of a simple UI frontend 
> for *every*
> > > command line tool available on the system, or even better, for a
> > > combination of those commands).
> > 
> > If such things are actually useful for a lot of users then 
> they should be
> > part of the regular Nautilus functionality.
> > 
> what do you mean? Have options, as part of the nautilus code, to run
> every possible command line tool available in the system?

I mean.
1. it is not actually useful to run "every possible command line tool".
2. if it's useful to make _some_ extra functionality available then that
should be part of Nautilus.

> That seems a bit overwhelming to me. It would be better IMO to offer a
> set of the most used functionality and allow users to extend that via
> scripts.

Again, if only a small minority of people _need_ to write scripts then
there's no need for xenity to be in the platform. I certainly don't think it
makes sense to include xenity without an example script. And if that example
script is useful then it should not be a script, but should be part of
Nautilus instead.

Murray Cumming
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